Murex cariosus Linnaeus, 1767

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 70

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D3713F2F-39DB-0B41-0FC9-11E1DD1C2FAF

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scientific name

Murex cariosus Linnaeus, 1767
status

 

Murex cariosus Linnaeus, 1767 View in CoL

Original source.

Linnaeus 1767: 1220.

Type locality.

"In Aqaeductu ad Sevillam" [in an aqueduct near Sevilla], Spain.

Remarks.

Today combined as Melanopsis cariosa , the species is one of the few stable taxa in melanopsid taxonomy (e.g., Glaubrecht 1996).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sorbeoconcha

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Murex